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- Clearing Negative Thoughts - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2007 from Daniel ErwayNegative thoughts eventually weaken if you don’t give them your attention. The problem is that some negative thoughts are difficult to ignore. Those are most likely to involve feelings, particularly fear. Any fearful thought is quite difficult to ignore because we generally believe our ...
Views: 7324 - How Thoughts and Desires Cause Suffering - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2007 from Daniel ErwayThe egoic mind is the cause of suffering. Nothing more. Suffering only happens in response to a thought. We suffer because we think something about what is happening, what happened, or what might happen. We create a story about what is, what was, or what will be; then we suffer over it. We ...
Views: 4719 - Desiring What Is - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2009 from Daniel ErwayBuddha said that desire is the root of all suffering. He didn’t say most of the suffering or much of the suffering but all of it. Every single contraction of being is caused by desire. Because desire is such a powerful force, it is worth looking into. As powerful as desire is, every desire ...
Views: 1518(2 votes) - Listening to the Heart - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2007 from Daniel ErwayYou listen to the Heart with something other than your ears. You listen with your awareness. What are you aware of now? You listen for (pay attention to) what is present now and arising now in the moment. You give your attention to what is, which may include a thought, but you don’t give ...
Views: 1154 - Attention Is an Act of Love - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2007 from Daniel ErwayGiving attention is a very basic form of love, which is obvious everywhere, and a way that love can be expressed very simply in the world. What you give your attention to is what you love. If you are giving your attention to the egoic mind, then you are loving that and joining with that. If you ...
Views: 1142 - The Myth of Better - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2009 from Daniel ErwayWe are conditioned to believe something that has very little truth to it, so little truth that it’s more accurate to call it a myth: We believe that things could be better. We deeply believe that we can have a better experience or a better life or become a better person. And, of course, the flip ...
Views: 1085 - What to Do When There is No Doer - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2009 from Daniel ErwayNondual spiritual teachings suggest that there is no doer, that there is no separate self that is the source of our actions. This teaching is the source of much confusion, as it is contrary to our experience. It seems that there is a doer and that I am the doer: get up in the morning, walk the ...
Views: 1064 - Developing the Connection to Your Heart - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2007 from Daniel ErwayThe most important thing you can do to develop a connection with your Heart is to be true to it. The more you follow your Heart, the more you will catch its communications, and the stronger these communications will become. They can become so strong that you feel you can’t not follow them. ...
Views: 1015 - How the Heart Guides You - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2007 from Daniel ErwayYou know when you are following the Heart because you feel good. This isn’t the same feeling you have when you follow the ego. Usually, when you follow the ego, you feel good only briefly, when you get what the ego wants. This good feeling rapidly fades or some other desire arises to move ...
Views: 955 - Love is for Giving - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2009 from Daniel ErwayWhat is love and where is it found? We search for love and try to get love, and yet it seems like we never get enough. Even when we have found love, it can slip away as time passes. What if there is a source of love that never fades and is always available? What if love is as near and easy as ...
Views: 951 - The Way of Acceptance - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2007 from Daniel ErwayOne of the reasons we turn away from the moment and the peace and joy that reside there is that we are programmed to reject life as it is. We want life on our own terms, but it can never be that way. Even if the ego could have life on its own terms, which it does briefly and occasionally, it ...
Views: 848 - Listening as a Spiritual Practice - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2007 from Daniel ErwayOne of the simplest forms of meditation is listening. You don’t even have to sit still to practice listening. Except for when you are asleep, listening is always happening. You are either listening to the mind or to something else. When we are not listening to the mind, the opportunity ...
Views: 810 - Who You Really Are - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2007 from Daniel ErwayYou are not who you think you are. Your thoughts are ideas you have about who you are, but what is it that is aware of these thoughts? Thoughts are arising and disappearing within your consciousness, or awareness. Consciousness is not a thing or something you can perceive, so it seems like ...
Views: 806 - Finding Love in All the Right Places - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2007 from Daniel ErwayBecause we want love on our terms, many of us don’t find it, or what we get is a person and relationship that matches our conditioning as much as possible. This kind of relationship is not necessarily the one that will make us the happiest, oddly enough. The ego thinks it knows best about ...
Views: 781 - The Truth - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2007 from Daniel ErwayFollowing your Heart is something you know how to do but may not always do because something else very compelling, which you are programmed to pay attention to, grabs and keeps your attention. That something is the egoic mind. You are programmed to give your attention to your mind. This causes ...
Views: 763 - Who Creates Your Reality? - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2007 from Daniel ErwayYou are an expression of the divine Self, and it creates through you in two ways: It inspires and moves you, as much as you allow it to, to create the reality it intends for you, and it also allows your egoic self to create the reality it chooses. So, two things are going on in any moment: the ...
Views: 742 - Forgiveness Can Set You Free - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2007 from Daniel ErwayA lack of forgiveness keeps us tied to stories about the past. These stories are manufactured by the ego and keep us involved with the egoic mind. They keep us stuck in the past and stuck in a certain image of ourselves (usually a negative one) that corresponds to that story. As long as we are ...
Views: 740 - The Fullness of the Now - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2007 from Daniel ErwayKnowing in the Now Just sit still a moment and experience what is. What do you experience? a thought? a sensation? an image? a feeling? a desire? tension? relaxation? contraction? expansion? awareness? presence? silence? acceptance? beauty? love? joy? All of this and more can be happening in ...
Views: 697 - Shifting Your Perspective Through Gratitude - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2007 from Daniel ErwayGratitude comes from essence—your truest Self. It is not the ego’s nature to be grateful but quite the opposite. When you feel gratitude, it is coming from essence. When you are feeling gratitude, it is helpful to acknowledge the gratitude and really allow yourself to feel it and to ...
Views: 678 - Healing Relationships - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2007 from Daniel ErwayYour preferences, opinions, judgments, beliefs, and reactions to others are all part of your conditioning. As such, you are responsible for them in the sense that no one else caused them, although others do trigger them. However, you didn’t ask for that conditioning. For the most part, it ...
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